State police at Rockview
Michael A. Anderson of Cleveland, Wis., was traveling west on I-80 in Snow Shoe Township on Saturday at 12:20 a.m. when the trailer he was towing began to sway. Police said his vehicle then went out of control and off the roadway and into the median where the vehicle flipped over.
Mr. Anderson and one passenger suffered minor injuries, while another passenger escaped injury.
GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP — A boat out of water caused some damage on land Thursday afternoon.
A boat being towed north on Mercury Drive became disconnected from the vehicle that was hauling it at around 4:30 p.m., and the boat and trailer rolled into a house near the intersection of Mercury and Robbins Road, Lt. Mike Brookhouse of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department said.
Only minor damage to both the boat and house was reported, Brookhouse said, and no one was hurt in the incident.
8/8/2009 - Near Pronghorn.
Horses were on the highway Friday night in Deschutes County after a truck and trailer go into a spin. A Dodge pick-up towing a horse trailer was northbound on Powell Butte Highway about six o'clock Friday night. Around the Pronghorn subdivision, the driver briefly looked away from the road and the truck and trailer went off onto a rough shoulder. She then over corrected, going into a clockwise spin on the highway. The pick-up rolled over onto its top. The trailer landed on its side and there were horses inside.
"Right after the crash the horse were out of the horse trailer they have gotten out of the horse trailer they were running in traffic on Powell Butte Highway," said Lt. Shane Nelson from the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office.
Traffic was down to one lane on the highway for about forty-five minutes. The driver was transported to Saint Charles with minor injuries, the passenger wasn't hurt, neither were the horses. They were taken away by a friend of the driver.
ANAHEIM HILLS – Two and a half lanes are blocked on the northbound 241 toll road just north of the Windy Ridge Toll Plaza after an SUV towing a camper trailer tipped over on its side, the California Highway Patrol says.
At 12:11 p.m., the CHP received reports that both the SUV and trailer were overturned.
No one was hurt but the Nos. 2 and 3 and part of the No. 1 lanes were all blocked.
The CHP issued a SigAlert at 12:38 p.m.
Lanes are expected to be blocked until 1:38 p.m. so that a heavy-duty tow and flatbed truck can remove the vehicle and trailer from the roadway.
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